The New York Times, in a bombshell report, raises serious questions about John McCain’s integrity. Of course, such questions should be nothing new. In the 1980s, he intervened to keep regulators away from Charles Keating, a Savings & Loan operator, who contributed to McCain’s campaign and let McCain’s wife co-invest in a real estate deal. Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan ultimately failed, costing taxpayers $3.4 billion.

But the Times story adds a new wrinkle. It raises questions about a 40-year old lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, whom McCain’s advisors worried was having an affair with him. So they shooed her away from McCain as he tried to run, unsuccessfully, for President in 2000.

But that was not enough to stop McCain from intervening, yet again, on behalf of a powerful campaign contributor. In this case, it was Iseman’s client, Paxson Communications. In late 1999, Iseman asked McCain’s staff to send a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help Paxson on another matter.

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